Appendix to _Aphorisms_, p. 125.

[22] _Ibid._ p. 127.

[23] _Ibid._ pp. 133-134.

[24] _Select Sermons_ (1698), p. 149.

[25] _Ibid._ pp. 131-133.

[26] _Ibid._ p. 88.

[27] _Ibid._ p. 109.

[28] _Ibid._ p. 74.

[29] Proverbs xx. 27.

[30] _Aphorism_ 861.

[31] _Aphorism_ 934.

[32] _Aphorism_ 847.

[33] _Aphorism_ 457.

[34] _Aphorism_ 444.

[35] _Aphorism_ 87.

[36] _Aphorism_ 248.

[37] _Aphorism_ 220.

[38] _Several Discourses_ (1707), iv. p. 259.

[39] _Aphorism_ 709.

[40] _Several Discourses_, iv. p. 192.

[41] _Select Sermons_, pp. 55 and 62

[42] _Select Sermons_, p. 7.

[43] _Discourses_, iv. p. 191.

[44] _Ibid._ p. 171.

[45] _Ibid._ p. 259.

[46] _Select Sermons_, p. in

[47] _Aphorism_ 302.

[48] Quoted almost literally from _Select Sermons_, p. 72.

[49] _Ibid._ pp. 32-33.

[50] _Select Sermons_, p. 6. He also says in Aphorism No. 109, "God hath
set up two Lights to enlighten us in our Way: the Light of Reason, which
is the Light of His Creation; and the Light of Scripture which is
After-Revelation from Him."

[51] _Aphorism_ 587.

[52] See _Several Discourses_, iv. p. 173.

[53] _Ibid._ ii. p. 275.

[54] _Aphorisms_ 1127, 853, and 1028.

[55] _Select Sermons_, p. 79; and _Aphorism_ 285.

[56] _Select Sermons_, p. 350.

[57] _Aphorism_ 367.

[58] _Select Sermons_, p. 71.

[59] _Aphorisms_ 243 and 625.

[60] _Aphorism_ 290.

[61] _Aphorisms_ 525, 612.

[62] _Aphorism_ 464.

[63] _Select Sermons_, p. 86. This will be recognized as in perfect
parallelism with Jacob Boehme's teaching, and the parallel is even more
striking in the passage where Whichcote says that "Religion must inform
the Judgment with Truth and reform the Heart and Life by the _Tincture_
of it." (_Select Sermons_, p. 157).

[64] _Aphorism_ 51.

[65] _Select Sermons_, p. 42.

[66] _Aphorism_ 248.

[67] _Select Sermons_, p. 153.

[68] _Ibid._ p. 21.

[69] _Several Discourses_, ii. p. 329.

[70] John Tulloch's _Rational Theology in the Seventeenth Century_, ii.
p. 115.

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CHAPTER XVI

JOHN SMITH, PLATONIST--"AN INTERPRETER OF THE SPIRIT"[1]

Principal Tulloch, in his admirable study of the Cambridge Platonists,
declares that John Smith was "the richest and most beautiful mind and
certainly by far the best writer of them all."[2]

There can be no doubt, in the thought of any one who has come into
close contact with him, of the richness and beauty of